New Worlds: Cultural Mixing
The New Worlds Patreon can’t do more than touch on the incredibly complex topic of how cultures influence each other and hybridize — but even that brief touch is worth taking a moment for! Comment over there . . .
Posts Tagged ‘new worlds’
New Worlds: After Migration
The New Worlds Patreon has covered the reasons people migrate; now it’s time to look at what happens after they do. Comment over there!
New Worlds: Go West, Young Human
Migration, either as individuals or as populations moving wholesale, has always been part of the human story. The reasons why are the subject of this week’s New Worlds Patreon essay — comment over there!
New Worlds: Planetary Setups
Two moons? Two suns? Planetary rings, whether on your own ball of rock or the one nearby? The New Worlds Patreon is happy to wander away from planets like our own and consider alternative setups. Comment over there!
New Worlds: Directionality
I do like using the New Worlds Patreon to talk about the occasional really arcane topic — in this case, how languages and cultures approach the question of directions, spatial relationships, and how time relates to both these things. Comment over there!
New Worlds: Color Symbolism
Relatively few stories are going to get into the nitty-gritty of how paintings get made or clothes get dyed . . . but quite a lot of them are going to mention colors along the way! Thus the New Worlds Patreon is taking a look at the symbolism assigned to different colors — comment over there!
New Worlds: Pigments and Dyes
Here on this Fourth of July, the New Worlds Patreon is pivoting to talk about how we make colors. It’s more complicated than you may think! Comment over there . . .
New Worlds: Dystopias
The New Worlds Patreon loops back this week to deliver on the second installment of what I originally thought was going to be a single essay, with the darker vision of dystopias. Comment over there!
New Worlds: Utopias
Every so often, a topic for the New Worlds Patreon grows beyond the scope of a single essay. So it is with what was supposed to be a post on utopias and dystopias — but let’s start on the nicer end! Comment over there . . .
New Worlds: Courts and Appeals
Second time’s the charm? I thought a while ago that the New Worlds Patreon was done with legal topics, but then I thought up a couple more, of which this is the last. We’re looking at the different types of courts and what they’re for — comment over there!
New Worlds: (Don’t) Kill All the Lawyers
Do we really need lawyers? Yes, yes we do — but also, it’s not hard to see why they’ve wound up with such a negative reputation. Yep, the New Worlds Patreon is taking a look at the legal profession . . . comment over there!
New Worlds Theory Post: Easy-Access Worldbuilding
At Chez New Worlds Patreon, five Fridays in one month means an additional essay focused on some aspect of craft or theory. This time around, it’s the notion of worldbuilding that is “easy” for the reader vs. “hard” — comment over there!
New Worlds: Irrigation and Flood Control
The topic for this week’s New Worlds Patreon essay is just as vital to today’s society as it was to those thousands of years ago: how to get water to where we need it, and keep it out of where we don’t want it. Comment over there!
New Worlds: Land Management
From nomadic peoples burning the terrain for better hunting to empires digging out transport canals for global trade, the reshaping of the landscape is the topic of this week’s New Worlds Patreon essay. Comment over there!
New Worlds: Tree Huggers
I do love me a good forest in fiction. That’s what the New Worlds Patreon is looking at this week — comment over there!
New Worlds: Cave People
A new month means a new theme for the New Worlds Patreon! This time around it’s some topics covering our relationship with the natural environment, and we’re starting in a very primal place: underground. Cavemen, religious sites, and Hollow Earths, oh my! Comment over there . . .
New Worlds, Year Eight!
It’s that time of year again, when my annual Patreon collection goes on sale!
If you’re accustomed to picking these up in hard copy, I promise, the paperback is on its way. It’s just a little delayed this year because I ran into a snag right when I was eyeball-deep in revising the first book of The Sea Beyond to send to our editor, and when I had to choose between my sanity and getting the print edition ready by today, I chose the former. I’ll post here when that’s available, which hopefully won’t be too long from now.
Meanwhile, the Patreon marches on into Year Nine — join the ranks of my patrons here!
New Worlds: Rhetoric and Oratory
I swear, the timing is coincidental: I planned for the final New Worlds Patreon essay of this month to be about rhetoric well before I wound up reading the books that sparked this post, nor did I read them because they would be research for this essay. It’s all a happy accident! But yes, this week we are talking about rhetoric and oratory, and you can comment over there!
New Worlds: Treaties
The New Worlds Patreon promises peace between us and favorable terms of trade if you go read this week’s essay, on treaties. Comment over there!
New Worlds: Yes, Minister
Why do governments have ministers, and what kind of work do they do? That’s the question the New Worlds Patreon takes on this week — comment over there!
